Gender and Space in Rural Britain, 1840-1920

Herausgeber: Goodman, Gemma; Mathieson, Charlotte

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Produktbeschreibung

The essays in this collection focus on the ways rural life was represented during the long nineteenth century. Contributors bring expertise from the fields of history, geography and literature to present an interdisciplinary study of the interplay between rural space and gender during a time of increasing industrialization and social change.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Januar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 324g
• ISBN-13: 9781138663046
• ISBN-10: 1138663042
• Artikelnr.: 45218131

Autorenporträt

Gemma Goodman, Charlotte Mathieson

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Gender and Space in Rural Britain
1840-1920
Gemma Goodman
Charlotte Mathieson; Chapter 1 Women in the Field
Roger Ebbatson; Chapter 2 'Between Two Civilizations': George Sturt's Constructions of Loss and Change in Village Life
Barry Sloan; Chapter 3 At Work And At Play: Charles Lee's Cynthia in the West
Gemma Goodman; Chapter 4 'Going Out
Going Alone': Modern Subjectivities in Rural Scotland
1900-21
Samantha Walton; Chapter 5 'Drowned Lands': Charles Kingsley's Hereward the Wake and the Masculation of the English Fens
Lynsey McCulloch; Chapter 6 'Wandering Like a Wild Thing': Rurality
Women and Walking in George Eliot's Adam Bede and The Mill on the Floss
Charlotte Mathieson; Chapter 7 'I Never Liked Long Walks': Gender
Nature and Jane Eyre's Rural Wandering
Katherine F. Montgomery; Chapter 8 Gertrude Jekyll: Cultivating the Gendered Space of the Victorian Garden for Professional Success
Christen Ericsson-Penfold; Chapter 9 From England to Eden: Gardens
Gender and Knowledge in Virginia Woolf's the Voyage Out
Karina Jakubowicz; Chapter 10 The Transnational Rural in Alicia Little's My Diary in a Chinese Farm
Eliza S. K. Leong;